City
Maseru
Capital of Lesotho
What guided this image
- Landmarks
- Basotho Hat; Catholic Cathedral of Our Lady of Victories; Parliament of Lesotho; Mohokare; Lancers' Gap and the Berea Plateau; Kingsway; Basotho
- Viewpoint
- Favor an elevated viewpoint from the slopes of a sandstone ridge (such as from Lancers' Gap or Mpilo Hill), looking southwest across Maseru toward the Mohokare River, with the Mokorotlo hat landmark and sandstone church towers in the middle-ground and flat-topped mesas framing the background.
- Palette
- Green should be the predominant color, especially in the riverbank willow trees, valley pastures, poplars, and plateau vegetation.
- Guarded against
- Not a generic African savanna or Swiss mountain town
Population359,753Wikidata: 227,880
Coordinates29.32°S, 27.48°E
Elevation1,600 m
Area138 km²
Time zoneAfrica/MaseruUTC+2
Solar noon12:10clock runs 0.2 h ahead of the sun
Through the Earth
Dig straight through the Earth from Maseru and you surface in open ocean, nearest to Huelo, United States — 1,008 km from the exact antipodal point.
Nearest cities in the atlas
| Bloemfontein | ZA | 125 km |
| Soweto | ZA | 341 km |
| Durban | ZA | 348 km |
| Johannesburg | ZA | 351 km |
| Pretoria | ZA | 404 km |
| Lobamba | SZ | 484 km |
| Mbabane | SZ | 490 km |
| Gaborone | BW | 542 km |
Twinned cities
Wikidata records no twinned cities for Maseru inside this atlas.